SnakeLee:If they didn't network so well, nobody in a frat would be employable

Pledged a frat my freshman year. Bailed after the first term. Biggest bunch of misogynistic assholes I have ever encountered in my life. No amount of alcohol could have made them tolerable. I'm sure there are plenty of perfectly nice fraternity members, but my experience with them was overwhelmingly negative.

Not so much that it bypasses the liver, but an enema can push more alcohol into places it can be absorbed than any reasonable person could chug. You can down a whole fifth (roughly 15 shots) in under three seconds. With a .40+ I suspect they a bottle or more in his ass.

"University officials are currently conducting an investigation into allegations involving the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter and incidents that occurred over the weekend. Due to the gravity of the allegations, interim sanctions have already been imposed upon the chapter and will remain in effect until the investigation is concluded and final reports are available."

Yes! Double-Secret Probation! One more slip-up, one more mistake and you're finished at UT!

My first thought was "How f*cking fast do you need a buzz to do something that stupid?"

Interesting part is that all the fraternity presidents were served notice just a little over a week ago by the Dean of Students to reign in the drinking. They, of course, acted like children about it rather than agree it's a problem. It will be interesting to see how she handles this.

My first thought was "How f*cking fast do you need a buzz to do something that stupid?"

Interesting part is that all the fraternity presidents were served notice just a little over a week ago by the Dean of Students to reign in the drinking. They, of course, acted like children about it rather than agree it's a problem. It will be interesting to see how she handles this.

Interesting is an understatement.

Having read the article, I can find no references to drinking at all. Enemas are not drinking, if they were, I'd never want to set foot in a bar again.

So they were told to cut out the drinking and they found a different way to put alcohol in their bodies. It's gross and all, but it seems like they were following the advice of the Dean of Students...

These men are not fraternity men, they're drunken assholes, looks like they previously had some hazing problems and PKE National is right to jump all over them.

When I was an undergrad we'd rather our newer members drink at our house so we could stop them from doing stupid shiat like this, or at least take care of them if they did. College students are going to drink, better to learn how to do it right in a relatively safe environment.

/i also regularly give myself water enemas//is nice to feel fresh and clean during the buttsecks

Leeds:So they were told to cut out the drinking and they found a different way to put alcohol in their bodies. It's gross and all, but it seems like they were following the advice of the Dean of Students...

The word "drinking" was describing alcohol use and abuse. Semantics won't win anything for them in this one.

I was never in a fraternity, have never been a fan of fraternities, and tend to have that bias, but even by what friends and family members I have to did go through a fraternity in college, the Pikes have a reputation even among other fraternities for brazenly stupid behavior. They burned down their own house at Tulane. I think it caught fire a number of times before, but the last time burned it to the ground. For all I know, NOFD just let the f*cker burn last time.

fusillade762:SnakeLee: If they didn't network so well, nobody in a frat would be employable

Pledged a frat my freshman year. Bailed after the first term. Biggest bunch of misogynistic assholes I have ever encountered in my life. No amount of alcohol could have made them tolerable. I'm sure there are plenty of perfectly nice fraternity members, but my experience with them was overwhelmingly negative.

I never joined, or tried to join, a Frat, but my Freshman year of college I saw all I needed to know about them through my roommate.

My roommate in the dorms was there to party, not to study. He considered his choice of frat to be a much bigger deal than his choice of major or classes.

He rushed most frats at the University, and was able to pledge one. He was so happy. He was gone most of the time to frat events. He'd come back to the dorm room late at night, smashing drunk (he, like me, was 18). He got a college girlfriend to supplement the high school sweetheart he still visited on the weekends. We had some of the same classes, but I started seeing him in class less and less.

The breaking point came about 2/3 of the way into the Fall semester. He came from a Catholic family. His little sister's Confirmation was one night. His folks made it clear that if he didn't attend, they wouldn't keep paying for him to go to college. There was some fraternity event that night as well. He explained to them that this was a religious event for his family, and if he didn't go he'd be all but disowned.

Their response: You're out of there. Dropped his pledge, kicked him out of the frat. He lost all his new "friends", his new social life was gutted, and his college girlfriend from an allied sorority ratted him out to his HS sweetheart, all for deciding that going to a religious event with his family was more important than a frat party.

Frats are for idiotic assholes. It's a wonder enough of the pass to take tests for the others. Then again, I heard they have a new A+ for Everybody policy so that probably explains it: stay registered, pay your fees, show up occasionally and do as much work as you feel like and you'll graduate with a 4.56 GPA. Especially if your dad's an alumnus, eh?

Nabb1:I was never in a fraternity, have never been a fan of fraternities, and tend to have that bias, but even by what friends and family members I have to did go through a fraternity in college, the Pikes have a reputation even among other fraternities for brazenly stupid behavior. They burned down their own house at Tulane. I think it caught fire a number of times before, but the last time burned it to the ground. For all I know, NOFD just let the f*cker burn last time.

I never joined, or tried to join, a Frat, but my Freshman year of college I saw all I needed to know about them through my roommate.

My roommate in the dorms was there to party, not to study. He considered his choice of frat to be a much bigger deal than his choice of major or classes.

He rushed most frats at the University, and was able to pledge one. He was so happy. He was gone most of the time to frat events. He'd come back to the dorm room late at night, smashing drunk (he, like me, was 18). He got a college girlfriend to supplement the high school sweetheart he still visited on the weekends. We had some of the same classes, but I started seeing him in class less and less.

The breaking point came about 2/3 of the way into the Fall semester. He came from a Catholic family. His little sister's Confirmation was one night. His folks made it clear that if he didn't attend, they wouldn't keep paying for him to go to college. There was some fraternity event that night as well. He explained to them that this was a religious event for his family, and if he didn't go he'd be all but disowned.

Their response: You're out of there. Dropped his pledge, kicked him out of the frat. He lost all his new "friends", his new social life was gutted, and his college girlfriend from an allied sorority ratted him out to his HS sweetheart, all for deciding that going to a religious event with his family was more important than a frat party.

Maybe you are not taking all the facts into consideration when you blame the fraternity for your roommate's unacceptable behavior. Maybe the problem wasn't created by the fraternity. Maybe your roommate was simply an asshole all along.

My fraternity would occasionally pledge a promising freshman only to learn that he was not the person we thought when we offered him an invitation to pledge. If a pledge failed to correct unacceptable behavior, after they were pulled aside on a couple of occasions, we would de-pledge him.

I suspect the fraternity used the meeting as the excuse to get rid of your roommate because he was an asshole. The reality is no fraternity is going to de-pledge a well-liked person for missing a meeting, especially when the person had a valid family commitment.

I went to a Pike party at a Southern university on a football weekend back in the '80s. Porked a frat boy's girlfriend in his room, on his bed on Friday night. Word leaked out and on Saturday night several of the khaki/penny loafer boys tied me up to a basketball goal post and beat the shiat out of me. Would do it all over again in a heart beat, but I was never invited back.

JeffreyScott:I suspect the fraternity used the meeting as the excuse to get rid of your roommate because he was an asshole. The reality is no fraternity is going to de-pledge a well-liked person for missing a meeting, especially when the person had a valid family commitment.

If they need an "excuse" then they're gutless chickenshiats who can't stand up to some kid who wants to join their club and say, "No, kid, we don't want you in our club after all. You're just not our kind. G'wan, git!"

Excuse? What, they don't want to hurt his feelings after all the Jack enemas, sponge cookies, and toilet-water gargling? "Sorry, chum, we'd love to keep you on board but you missed this Critical Fraternal Event so we're going to have to cut you loose."

AngryJailhouseFistfark:JeffreyScott: I suspect the fraternity used the meeting as the excuse to get rid of your roommate because he was an asshole. The reality is no fraternity is going to de-pledge a well-liked person for missing a meeting, especially when the person had a valid family commitment.

If they need an "excuse" then they're gutless chickenshiats who can't stand up to some kid who wants to join their club and say, "No, kid, we don't want you in our club after all. You're just not our kind. G'wan, git!"

Excuse? What, they don't want to hurt his feelings after all the Jack enemas, sponge cookies, and toilet-water gargling? "Sorry, chum, we'd love to keep you on board but you missed this Critical Fraternal Event so we're going to have to cut you loose."